What is the state's position on the right to prohibit a pro-abortion group from using a publicly funded forum?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Committee to Defend Reproductive Rights v. Myers, 156 Cal.Rptr. 73, 93 Cal.App.3d 492 (Cal. App. 1979):

3 The majority disposes of Parrish with the observation that "if the state here were arbitrarily declaring ineligible for any medical benefits women on welfare who had abortions, serious constitutional problems would be raised. However, the state is not denying such benefits; rather, the state is merely not paying for elective abortions." The majority's point, if I understand it, is the very one rejected in Danskin v. San Diego Unified Sch. District (1946) 28 Cal.2d 536, 171 P.2d 885, where the district unsuccessfully argued that by prohibiting "subversives" from using a publicly financed forum available to other organizations, it was not prohibiting "subversives" from speaking elsewhere; it was "merely not paying" for the propagation of views uncongenial to the community.

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